The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png An Early Look at the 2022 Proxy Season – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 An Early Look at the 2022 Proxy Season https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/06/07/an-early-look-at-the-2022-proxy-season/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-early-look-at-the-2022-proxy-season https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/06/07/an-early-look-at-the-2022-proxy-season/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:33:02 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=146632?d=20220607093302EDT Posted by Hannah Orowitz, Rajeev Kumar, and Lee Anne Hagel, Georgeson LLC, on Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Editor's Note:

Hannah Orowitz is Head of ESG, Rajeev Kumar is Senior Managing Director, and Lee Anne Hagel is Director at Georgeson LLC. This post is based on a Georgeson memorandum by Ms. Orowitz, Mr. Kumar, Ms. Hagel, and Kilian Moote.

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance by Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita (discussed on the Forum here); For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain by Lucian A. Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, and Roberto Tallarita (discussed on the Forum here); Restoration: The Role Stakeholder Governance Must Play in Recreating a Fair and Sustainable American Economy: A Reply to Professor Rock by Leo Strine (discussed on the Forum here); and Stakeholder Capitalism in the Time of COVID, by Lucian Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, and Roberto Tallarita (discussed on the Forum here).

Introduction

An early examination of 2022 proxy season voting statistics yields a number of notable observations:

We have seen several types of proposals that attracted majority support for the first-time this season, including shareholder proposals addressing racial equity and civil rights audits, sexual harassment concerns and gender pay equity.

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